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Late Knights to host War and
Peace event on Memory Mall
Late Knights, a monthly
event tailored to get students more involved with
UCF, will be hosting a War
and Peace event on March
18.
Free food, games and
giveaways will be featured
at the event, which are
always free of charge.
This month’s theme is
War and Peace, which
allows students to “choose
a side.”
The event will take
place on Memory Mall on
March 18 from 9 p.m. to 1
a.m. All students are welcome to attend.
For more information,
students can contact Late
Knights 407-823-5107 or
ucflk@mail.ucf.edu.

Candidates set for town hall
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at 6 p.m. in the Pegasus
Ballroom.
The SGA Elections
Student Government Commission and MulticulAssociation presidential tural Student Center will
candidates will have the host the town hall meeting.
opportunity to approach Part of the discussion will
the student body in a casu- be aimed at diversity and
al atmosphere at a town multiculturalism issues at
hall meeting on Thursday. UCF.
The event, which is
All UCF students are
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candidates.
William Lusk, an SGA
Elections Commissioner,
said that he looks forward
to the casual atmosphere of
the town hall.
“This provides the per-

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CRYSTAL RIVER —
Progress Energy Florida
says repairs to its nuclear
power plant in Crystal
River are taking longer
than expected.
The plant was damaged
in 2009 while workers
were
removing
and
replacing large steam generators. The unit was
already shut down for
refueling and maintenance at the time the
cracks in the concrete
outer wall were found.
The company in a news
release Tuesday said it
told state and federal regulators that it will take
longer to adjust the tension on steel tendons that
strengthen the thick concrete wall that surrounds
its single reactor.

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Central Fla.
kids get their
first taste of
college life
AVID brings kids to UCF
KATIE KUSTURA
News Editor

Prior to seventh grade, Leticia Soriano didn’t
think she had the opportunity to go to college.
“I thought, ‘I’m not going to get to go to college. I’m going to probably finish high school,
but that’s it,’ ” said the eighth-grade Yearling
Middle School student.
After a visit to UCF on March 15, which was
set up by UCF Business Services, Soriano and
close to 60 of her schoolmates were more confident in their chances of going to college.
The nearly 60 seventh and eighth graders
from the Okeechobee County school were able
to visit through being a part of their school’s
Advancement Via Individual Determination.
AVID is an “elementary through post-secondary college readiness system that is designed to
increase school-wide learning and performance. Although AVID serves all students, it
focuses on the least served students in the academic middle.”
“Through a rigorous curriculum, we want to
put middle-school children on a college path,”

In an effort to break down
stereotypes and raise awareness
about issues facing the lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender
community, Knight Allies at UCF
is hosting a play depicting what
life is like for them in the community.
The play, titled Break Through:
Bringing down the Barriers, is
made up of scenes that are all
based off true events that happened mostly in the Orlando area
and will cover a wide range of
scenarios that show what it’s like
to be queer in today’s society.
“Since I’ve been so involved
with LGBT rights for the past
four years now, I figured why not
create a story that would really
be able to show what we go

through as people in the LGBT
community,” said Gabrielle Shulruff, a senior theatre studies
major and the producer/director
for Break Through.
Shulruff said that the production is completely from interviews from the media, as well as
real stories from within the cast
and outside of the cast.
“It’s an eye opening production that will hit close to home to
many and is going to really do a
lot for this community,” Shulruff
said.
Jason Gootner, one of the few
actors in the play who isn’t a theatre major, felt a drive to be a part
of the production even though he
wasn’t getting any type of school
credit.
“What drove me to be in this

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Cast members of Break Through: Bringing down the Barriers chat during a break on set while
adjustments are made to the lighting of a scene.

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‘Casual’ town hall atmosphere set for Thurs.
FROM A1
fect opportunity to meet
the candidates and get
your questions answered,”
Lusk said. “You get to find
out what the candidates
are like behind the suit and
tie.”
The event will begin
with introductions of the
presidential and vice-presidential candidates and the
platforms of their campaigns. Registered student
organizations will then be
allowed to present any
questions to the candidates
regarding issues
The final segment of the
event will take questions

from students, who will be
asked to submit questions
by note card at the
entrance to the event.
Coordinators will then
choose appropriate questions for the candidates to
answer.
The student who submitted the note card will be
asked to stand up and hear
the answer while being
personally addressed by
candidates.
The reason for the note
cards, Lusk said, was
because MSC is an agency
of SGA and is required to
be unbiased. To avoid bias,
questions will be screened
for appropriateness.

After
candidates
answer student questions,
closing remarks will end
the event and candidates
will be permitted to personally meet with students
and answer face-to-face
questions.
“I encourage the candidates to stick around for a
few minutes,” Lusk said.
“To look at a person in the
eye and shake their hand is
a very powerful connection.”
Presidential candidates
Nicholas Gurney and
Matthew McCann have
confirmed that they will be
available after the event to
meet with students.

Both presidential tickets have expressed excitement about the town hall
events.
“When [vice presidential candidate Fernando
Gonzales] and I were first
contacted about which
town hall meetings were
going to be hosted, we
were initially very excited
that the MSC would be
putting on a town hall
event,” Gurney said. “The
climate of our university in
relation to multiculturalism and diversity and
inclusiveness is something
that needs direct attention.”
McCann also stressed

the importance of multiculturalism at UCF, especially in the upcoming year.
“[Vice presidential candidate Adam Brock] and I
are both thrilled about
attending the roundtable
discussion with the MSC,”
McCann said. “It not only
gives them the opportunity
to get to know us as candidates on a personal level,
but it gives us the opportunity to understand their
needs and desires.”
The event is expected to
last an hour, but will be
allowed to continue if candidates would like to spend
extra time speaking with
students.

A second town hall will
be held in the Zeta Tau
Alpha sorority house on
March 23 at 8 p.m. This
marks the first time in several years that elections
have involved more than
one town hall to brings
candidates
together,
according to Lusk.
Formal debates for candidates will take place on
March 21 in the Student
Union’s Cape Florida Ballroom at 7 p.m. Students are
permitted to submit questions for screening.
Students are also able to
submit their questions to
the
Future
at
CFF.editor@gmail.com.

Proceeds of show go to the nonprofit Zebra Coalition
FROM A1
production is that the production itself is supposed to be an
informative piece on the queer
community,” said Gootner, a
junior psychology major. “I’m
part of the queer community
myself, so I wanted to break
down stereotypes that are
placed on me personally.”
In addition to the actual play,
there will also be an art show
featuring pieces donated by
four different artists who support the LGBT community, as
well as a documentary on Break
Through by Aaron Hosé and
Dale Fakess of the Office of
Instructional Resources.
All money from the ticket
sales and the art show will go to
The Zebra Coalition, a 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization that
finds safe havens and counseling for troubled LGBTs.
“We’re really excited. We’ll
be there every night the production is on,” said Anthony Armstrong, a coordinator from The
Zebra Coalition. “We’re honored to be the benefactors from
this production. This is a good
sign of people just coming

together and trying to make a
difference.”
Alex Wall, the writer of the
production, was inspired to
write the script for Break
Through due to the teen suicides related to anti-LGBT bullying that occurred in September, 2010. Wall has always felt
strongly about the issues affecting the many people in the
LGBT community he knows.
“There was a quote from
Edward Albee that really
impacted me. ‘Art should be
useful,’ ” Wall said. “I haven’t
been involved in a project as
useful as this.”
Break Through also plans on
traveling to Florida Gulf Coast
University in the beginning of
April to perform at the Florida
Collegiate Pride Coalition conference — a traveling conference sponsored by LGBT student organizations that goes to
different schools all over Florida.
“We’re not trying to attack
people who have biased views,”
Gootner said. “We’re attempting to explain to them where the
other side is coming from. People usually have fear or hatred

KATIE KUSTURA / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

Break Through: Bringing down the Barriers is based off true events and covers scenarios that show what it’s like to be queer in today’s society.

for things that they just don’t
understand.”
The production and art show
will take place at the UCF Black

Box Theater from Thursday
through Sunday. The art show
starts at 6 p.m. and the play
starts at 8 p.m. It is free for UCF

students.
To find out more about ticket
info and the production, visit
breakthroughproduction.org.

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March 17, 2011 •

Okeechobee kids say UCF is ‘like a mini city’
FROM A1
said seventh-grade AVID
teacher Andrea Mitchum.
“What we look for are kids
that are at an economic disadvantage. They’re usually
middle-of-the-road kids,
they make very decent
grades, usually neither of
the parents went to college.”
Mitchum also said that
most of the students have
siblings, so being in a program designed to ready
them for college will
encourage their siblings as
well.
In Okeechobee, the
AVID program starts at a
seventh-grade level; schools
in other places sometimes
start the program in elementary school.
“The dream is to have
the seventh-grade students
go all the way through the

twelfth grade and then on to
college,” Mitchum said.
“They all have a drive to go
to college, which I’d say 95
percent of them when they
were in sixth grade didn’t
even think about it.”
Scott Eberle, the retail
coordinator at Business Services, remembers having
that same mentality at that
age since his family was low
income.
“Talking to me back in
middle school, I don’t think
I would’ve bet a dollar that I
would get my master’s,”
Eberle said.
Eberle has served as
Okeechobee’s link to UCF, a
relationship that developed
two years ago when Yearling teacher Donna Garcia,
who taught at Osceola High
at the time, contacted the
Business Services director
about visiting her school to

speak to the AVID students.
“We went down there
with some merchandise
and to talk to them … and
then I heard that story that a
lot of them hadn’t been out
of Okeechobee,” Eberle
said. “They don’t even
know what college is about.
They just hear or read about
it.”
When Eberle was told
during one of his visits to
the county that many of the
students hadn’t even seen
Lake Okeechobee, he
relayed the story to the
Business Services director,
who then said that they
should bring the students
up for a visit.
Tuesday’s visit was the
first time they brought a
group of AVID students to
the campus.
“You can tell them, but
it’s much better to show

them,” Eberle said. “They
were like kids on Christmas morning here. They
were just amazed at every
little thing.”
Business Services paid
for the buses’ fuel and
worked with UCF Dining
Services to get each of the
students a free meal. The
O-Team, or Orientation
Team, helped give the students a tour of campus,
which included a visit to
the Recreation and Wellness Center.
“I heard the biggest

roar at the Rec and Wellness Center,” Eberle said.
After leaving the Rec
and Wellness Center, the
students witnessed a UCF
police officer pull someone over at the nearby
traffic light.
Eberle said the students were impressed
that UCF had its own
police force.
“It’s like a mini city
here,” Soriano said. “I like
it.”
The group’s tour of
UCF came to a close in

the Arena where they
were given goodie bags
that included T-shirts,
school supplies and supplemental materials with
information about the
school.
“[The teachers] said a
lot of [the students] want
to go here, so that’ll be
neat,” said Eberle, who
hopes to make the visit a
tradition.
Eberle said that even if
the kids don’t choose
UCF, he just hopes they
go to college.

PHOTOS COURTESY LANDON ST. GORDON

Students from Okeechobee County’s Yearling Middle School visited UCF as part of the Advancement Via Individual
Determination program.

PRESIDENT OBAMA FILLS OUT
HIS BASKETBALL BARACK-ETS
WASHINGTON — March Madness is
back at the White House, and President
Barack Obama picked each of the four
No. 1 seeds to advance to the Final Four.
For the third straight year, Obama has
filled out an NCAA tournament bracket
for ESPN.com senior college basketball
writer Andy Katz. The president says
Duke, Kansas, Ohio State and
Pittsburgh will make the men’s Final
Four, the matchups being Duke vs. Ohio
State and Kansas vs. Pitt.
Obama’s national champion: Kansas,
the top seed in the Southwest, over the
Buckeyes, the No. 1 overall seed of the
68-team tournament.
“Kansas has more firepower,” Obama
told Katz.
The president’s men’s bracket,
including his choice for national
champion, was revealed on
“SportsCenter”on Wednesday.
In the 64-team women’s tournament,
Obama predicts Baylor, UConn,
Stanford and Tennessee will advance to
the Final Four. His full selections for the
women’s bracket will be unveiled Friday
on the 9 a.m. (ET) “SportsCenter.”
The basketball-player-in-chief is 1-1
when it comes to college basketball’s
men’s national championship.
He correctly picked North Carolina to
win in 2009. Last year, he went with
Kansas, but Duke ended up taking
home the trophy.

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— ESPN

BASEBALL

The Knights dropped the “War on I-4” rivalry
game against the USF Bulls on Tuesday night, giving up a late lead to lose 6-5.
The Knights lost the after leading 4-2 in the
eighth. Holding a late lead is something that head
coach Terry Rooney emphasizes to his team constantly.
“At the end of the day we talk about winning the
last three innings and today we didn’t win the last
three,” Rooney said. “Every opportunity matters,
every situation matters, every pitch matters. We
have to learn that. That everything matters in these
close games.”
Sophomore Brian Adkins pitched 6-2/3 innings
and gave up two runs on six hits and struck out
four in his fourth outing of the season. Adkins was
set to have his fourth win of the season until USF’s
offense produced four runs in the eighth inning
against D.J. Hicks.
Adkins walked his first batter of the season in
the game.
“It shouldn’t be overshadowed that Brian
Adkins had a tremendous outing today,” Rooney
said on his southpaw starter. “He pitched another
great game today and is doing a terrific job with
staying low in the zone and getting ahead on batters.”
The Knights’ offense produced three home runs
in the game; two of them were hit by designated
hitter and pitcher Hicks, the other from first baseman Jonathan Griffin. It was Hicks’ third twohomer game of his career. Hicks and Griffin lead
the team with four home runs this season.
The team had their strongest offensive inning in
the bottom of the fourth. Griffin hit a solo shot to
lead off the inning. Chris Taladay was hit by a pitch
and Hicks hit a homerun to give the Knights a 3-0
lead.
The Knights held a 4-2 lead in the top of the
eighth with Hicks pitching. However, USF
responded by scoring four two-out runs in the

JOSH GIVEN / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

D.J.Hicks’two home runs weren’t
enough for the Knights to defeat USF.

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Columbia series a chance for UCF to rebound
JESSICA GILLESPIE
Baseball beat writer

BRAVES COACH LOSES EYE
KISSIMMEE — Atlanta Braves minor
league manager Luis Salazar has lost an
eye after he was struck in the face by a
line drive while watching a spring
training game.
Braves general manager Frank Wren
said Wednesday that doctors were
unable to save Salazar’s left eye after
the accident March 9. The former major
league player is otherwise recovering
from his injuries and expects to
manage Lynchburg of the Class A
Carolina League this season.
The 54-year-old Salazar was standing
against the railing on the top step of
the dugout during a game between the
Braves and St. Louis Cardinals when
Brian McCann fouled a ball in his
direction. Salazar was unable to get out
of the way.
The game was stopped for about 20
minutes so the unconscious Salazar
could be airlifted to an Orlando
hospital. He had multiple facial
fractures along with the eye injury.

— ASSOCIATED PRESS

Baseball head coach
Terry Rooney has constantly preached what the
theme of the season has
been — winning the last
three innings and bouncing back.
Because the Knights
didn’t win the last three
innings on Wednesday
against USF, they have to
bounce back on Friday to
start their Columbia
series.
“We’ve got to do two
things: We’ve got to keep
playing every single pitch
of every single game,
there’s games never over,
and we need to win the
last three," said head
coach Terry Rooney.
Three of UCF’s four
losses have been close;
two have been by one run
and one was by two in 10
innings. Of UCF’s three
one-run games, the
Knights have won just
one.
“We have to win the
one-run games. We have
to learn how to do that,”
Rooney said. “That’s the
difference in college baseball. At the end of the
year, that’s the difference
in several wins.”

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UCF meets Columbia
on Friday for the first
time since 2005, when the
Knights beat the Lions
twice.
When the Lions arrive
at Jay Bergman Field to
face the Knights, they will
have played a game a day
for a week. After Sunday’s
game, Columbia will have
played 10 games in 10
days, with wins over
South Alabama and Florida Gulf Coast in that
stretch. The Lions also
have wins against Central
Michigan and Illinois.

Pitching rotation
Junior transfer Danny
Winkler has earned the
Friday-night start job. The
righty is 3-0 in four starts
and has struck out 30 batters in 22-1/3 innings.
Ben Lively became the
first UCF freshman to
throw a complete game

JOSH GIVEN / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

In the past five games,first baseman Jonathan Griffin has hit three home runs.
He’s tied at four with D.J.Hicks for the most home runs on the team.

since Mitch Houck did it
in 2006. All season long,
Rooney has stressed that
pitchers need to get further into games. Lively
did just that on March 12,
when he had his third
start and earned his third
win. The freshman owns
a team-best ERA at 0.43
and seems to have the
Saturday starting position
on lock.
Matt Collins and Ray
Hanson are likely the two
up for the final spot in the
weekend
rotation.
Collins, who has started
two games, is out on rest
for a slight forearm strain.
Hanson,
however,
stepped up in the Sunday
game vs. Wagner and

tossed a complete game
for his first win of the season. He didn’t walk a batter and only gave up one
run off of six hits in his
nine innings.

What to watch for
— Power. First baseman
Jonathan Griffin is proving
that the power hitters will
hit home runs. In the past
five games, he has hit three
blasts; he’s tied at four for
the most home runs on the
team. Before Griffin’s
home run against Boston
College on March 9, his
only homer came on his
first at-bat of the season.
Griffin’s solo shot against
USF was the first run of the
game for either team. In

Game Three against Wagner, Griffin’s two-run
homer won the game for
the Knights.
— Ronnie Richardson,
the every-day center fielder, made his college pitching debut to close out
Game One of the Wagner
series. In his debut,
Richardson struck out two
of the four batters he faced.
Look for a possible center
field change when the
Knights need someone to
close out a game.
— Travis Shreve has
stolen a team-high 15 bases
this season.
— No errors. The
Knights haven’t committed an error in three consecutive games and they
haven’t had an error in 11 of
their 17 games.
— The Columbia series
ends UCF’s 13-game homestand.

After marching through
the Conference USA Tournament, UCF was anxious
to receive its first-round
March Madness matchup.
On Selection Monday,
NCAA officials determined
that UCF would face Ohio
State in the first round of
the NCAA Tournament.
The Knights, seeded 13th, is
looking for its first NCAA
Tournament win ever and
hopes that it can come Saturday against the Buckeyes,
who are the 4th seed in the
Dayton region.
“We are excited to go
back to the tournament,”
said head coach Joi
Williams in a release. “It’s

great to finally know everything, but now we really
know what to focus on as
we begin to start preparing
for Ohio State.”
The Knights will enter
the tournament riding an 11game win streak; their
longest since the 1983-84
season and the second
longest in program history.
UCF has not lost since Jan.
30 at East Carolina.
Ohio State currently is in
the midst of a win streak of
its own. Winners of nine
straight, the Buckeyes
defeated Penn State in the
Big Ten final and are ranked
No. 18 in the Associated
Press Poll.
Ohio State is led by fourtime Big Ten Player of the
Year Jantel Lavender, who is

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averaging 22.7 points per
game (5th in Division I). She
also is averaging over 10
rebounds a game.
Working to the Buckeyes advantage, Saturday’s
game in Dayton will be held
at the St. John Arena, the
one-time home to the Ohio
State men's and women's
basketball programs. But
Coach Williams would like
her players to not think
about the rough Buckeyes
crowd and take the ‘home’
crowd out of the game.
“Every team wants to
play on their home court in
these situations and I think
[Ohio State] will have a

Rooney: final innings crucial
FROM A6
inning to jump out to a 64 lead.
In the bottom of the
eighth inning, Hicks hit
his second homerun of
the game to cut the lead
to one.
The Knights are now
13-4 on the season. Their
13-game home-stand will
end this weekend after
their series against IvyLeaguers Columbia.
Rooney knows that
Columbia is a good team
and will be no cakewalk.
“We have to bounce
back...” Rooney said.
“They play everyone,
they have a great schedule and we have to be
ready to go on Friday.”
The Knights take on
Columbia on Friday at
6:30 p.m., Saturday at 4
p.m. and end the series
on Sunday at 1 p.m.

JOSH GIVEN / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

Sophomore Brian Adkins pitched 6-2/3 innings and gave up two runs on six
hits and struck out four in his fourth outing of the season.

good atmosphere with their
home crowd,” Williams
said. “We need to just try
and do our best to keep the
crowd out of it and play
well.”
UCF will be led by seniors and C-USA All-Tournament team selections Jelisa
Caldwell, Chelsie Wiley
and D’Nay Daniels as well
as junior guard Aisha
Patrick. Caldwell, named
MVP of the conference
tournament, will look to
help the Knights advance to
the second round for the
first time in program history.
Tip-off is scheduled for
30 minutes after the conclusion of the first-round game
between No. 5 Georgia
Tech (23-10) and No. 12
Bowling Green (28-4). That
matchup is set for an 11:20
a.m. start.
The winner of the UCFOSU game will play the
winner of Georgia Tech and
Bowling Green in Monday's
second round. ESPN2 will
carry Saturday’s broadcast
between the Buckeyes and
Knights.

AMY SIMPSON / CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE

Senior guard Jelisa Caldwell is looking to lead the Knights past the Buckeyes.She
was named MVP of the Conference USA Championship tournament.

Orlando Magic
vs.Denver
Nuggets @
Amway Center
7 p.m.
Cradle of
Filth
performed at
Firestone
Live on
March 12.

REBELUTION
Winter Greens
Tour @ House
of Blues

Sporting black leather costumes
and gruesome makeup, the U.K.based band Cradle of Filth
descended upon Firestone Live
on Saturday night to the roaring approval of an Orlando
metal fan base.
Known for its chilling
stage presence and twisted
attire, the six-piece metal act not
only gave their fans a night of dark music, but put on
a show, as well.
“We try to represent what Cradle of Filth is in our live
act,” said lead guitarist Paul Allender. “We like to take it one
step further and make [the crowd] feel involved in the
atmosphere.”
The band played in Orlando as part of their “Creatures
from the Black Abyss” tour and has recently been supporting their newest album Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, which was released in November, 2010.
Engulfed in smoke and dramatic lighting, the
band played cryptic compositions filled with heavy
guitar riffs, haunting keyboard interludes, and
dynamic drum parts.
From behind a microphone stand made of
black, charred bones, frontman Dani Filth spat
lyrics of dark mythology and legends at the
crowd of loyal supporters. With vocals ranging
from low growls to high shrieks, Filth’s voice in
combination with the instruments gives the
band a sound that is both unique and difficult
to categorize.
Tyler Futrell, an 18-year-old senior at
Seminole High School in Sanford, believes
that the lyrics are the best quality of Cradle of
Filth and that other bands don’t focus enough
on the lyrical message.
“Their choice of diction makes them
unique. I really like the way the lyrics roll,”
said Futrell, who was seeing Cradle of Filth
for the first time. “Every other band is solely
content on being as brutal sounding as possible. Cradle likes to tell a story. You’ve got to go
with bands that do that.”
Another fan who appreciates the bands lyrical
content is Zachary Cole, a student at Stetson in
DeLand.
“I like their songs because they help get me through
rough times,” said Cole. “When I’m depressed or having
a bad day, their music gives me a source of power.”
Though the Orlando show was the second-to-last date
on the 31-city trek, Cradle of Filth showed no sign of fatigue
and played through a well-rounded set list of material spanning most of their albums. Some of the songs played included “Nymphetamine,” “Her Ghost in the Fog,” and “The Forest Whispers My Name.”
Trevor Aabal, a 23-year-old fan from Sarasota, went out
of his way to make his first Cradle of Filth show count by
securing himself a VIP meet-and-greet pass.
“Dani’s vocals are just so unique,” Aabal said. “They’re
melodic keyboard aspect gives them a very signature
sound. The music sounds brutal, yet beautiful.”

Those who have held a job in
the service industry know that
being treated like dirt by the occasional customer comes with the
territory.
But one job gets an even tougher
rap. Workers are commonly
referred to as Nazis, they’re thrown
trash at them as they drive by, and
it’s not entirely shocking to learn
that a co-worker was punched in
the face by a disgruntled citizen.
No, it’s not a roadside cleanup
crew staffed entirely by prison
inmates — it’s the UCF Parking and
Transportation Services.
But just like any other less-thanglamorous job, parking enforcement officers are just normal people trying to make a living. Some
students, irate with the workers’
audacity to cite their vehicle for a
violation and administer a $25 ticket, seem to forget this.
“They’re really just trying to get
a job and make a living right now,
the economy is so bad,” said Parking and Transportation Services
Office Manager, Jenifer Walker.
“We’re not out to ruin anyone’s
day.”
Parking enforcement employees have been trained to deal with
angry students and professors by
understanding that though violators are screaming at them, they
are just caught up in the moment.
“You learn that they are just
mad at the situation, they aren’t
mad at you,” said Tim, a parking
enforcement employee. “So you
just take it, go home, punch a pillow, and that’s it.”
For their safety, parking enforce-

ment employees have been
instructed to only give out either a
badge number or their first name
when asked.
Badge No. B65, declined giving
his name, stating that the reason for
his refusal was that he tries to keep
his occupation a secret from his
classmates. While his close friends
know that he moonlights as one of
the most hated employees on campus, he fears that he would be
ridiculed by classmates if they
knew that he may be behind the
neon green envelope attached to
their windshield.
If it weren’t for the required
polo shirts with “Parking and
Transportation Services” emblazoned on the front like a scarlet letter, one wouldn’t look twice at this
seemingly nice group of employees.
Actually, few heads may turn, as
some of the employees have taken
to speaking German to each other,
poking fun at their reputation as
UCF’s own resident Nazis.
Zaina Soueid, senior psychology major, is one of the numerous
students who has taken to warmly
referring to the staff as a bunch of
Nazis. Soueid received three parking tickets in one day.
“It was kind of my fault, but it
was pretty much bad luck,” Soueid
said. “Just Nazi Parking Services.”
Some students, however, have
had nothing but good experiences
with Parking Services. Christine
Gordon, a senior political science
major, has always found Parking
Services nothing but helpful when
purchasing her parking permit.
“If everyone would follow the
right parking procedures, they
wouldn't get any tickets to com-

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A parking patroller starts his day at 7:30 a.m.
writing tickets for UCF Parking Services.

plain about,” Gordon said. “I can
definitely understand people being
upset over the prices of parking
permits, but the money ultimately
helps UCF students by building
more parking garages and parking
lots.”
Many students may only think
of their money going down the
drain when they think of Parking
and Transportation Services, but in
moments of desperation, parking
enforcement employees may seem
like Knights in shining armor.
“If you have a flat tire, we’ll
change it for you,” Walker said. “If
you run out of gas, we’ll take you to
the gas station. Your battery is
dead, we’ll jump your battery. You
lock your keys in your car, as long
as you don’t have power locks we
will open your door for you.”
The enforcement officers look
forward to being able to help someone out of a jam, instead of citing

his or her vehicle for a violation.
“Some people are nice. I’m
about to go do a battery jump so
I’m going to meet somebody and
they are going to be grateful I
helped them out,” said parking
enforcement employee badge No.
B53, who declined to give his name.
“Compare that to the guy who
wants to get angry with me
because he parked in the wrong
spot and got a ticket.”
Walker made it perfectly clear,
her employees are not out to get
anyone, they don’t target people,
they don’t get their friends out of
tickets and there is no citation
quota that they must fill.
Parking enforcement employees are doing a job just like any
other person in the service industry. They have a list of duties, get
paid a decent wage, and can support their families because of what
they do. The only difference is that
any given day there is a higher
chance that a parking enforcement
employee will have one of their
customers spit in their face than
the average shop girl.
“We all have the right to come to
work and not be harassed or belittled,” Walker said.
B65 said that everyone wants to
get angry at them for giving out
tickets, but nobody cares that he
spent two hours under a car last
week trying to rescue a kitten that
had gotten stuck in the engine.
No, that’s not an exaggeration.
B65, who because of his job, has
been treated as if he were the
spawn of Satan, spent an entire two
hours of his life under a car oncampus, trying to rescue a kitten.
Just another day on the job for
parking enforcement.

Any college student
knows that some of the best
plans for a night out include
“Sweet Caroline”, “Don’t
Stop Believin’ ” and “Livin’
on a Prayer” (musical talent
optional).
We’ve broken down
some of the top spots at
UCF to let loose on some
karaoke.

Applebee’s on
University Boulevard
Applebee’s is one of the
most popular karaoke spots
for UCF students. Proximity to campus, a diverse and
current songbook and great
food and drink deals are
just a few things the restaurant has working in its favor

on Tuesday nights, when
karaoke begins at 10 p.m.
“It's entertaining,” junior
and event management
major Teryn Pulka said.
Though Pulka had been to
Applebee's with friends
and fellow students Jordan
Clark and Kaylee Parker
before, it was their first
karaoke night.
“I made an executive
decision for us to come
tonight,” said Kaylee Parker,
a freshman. “[There are]
terrible singers and great
singers.”
Other students, such
senior and psychology
major Melissa Berwick,
appreciate the deals.
“I love the two-for-one
drinks and half-priced
appetizers,” said Berwick,
who signed up to sing a

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Allender said that
overall song writing ability is much more important than playing quickly
or showing off technical
skill.
“I get bored when I see
people shred on guitar,”
Allender said. “It’s more
important to write good
songs and trying to get an
atmosphere than performing fret board gymnastics.”
In addition to playing
guitar for Cradle of Filth,
Allender also designs the
artwork on their merchandise and has his own
graphic art company
called Vomitorium. He
does merchandise for the
band Dawn of Ashes as
well, modifying pictures
into grotesque images
with his Photoshop skills.
“If I can’t think of a riff
then I’ll just start painting,” said Allender, who
feels that his dark artwork

and music go hand in
hand. “It’s all in good fun,
just a part of being creative.”
After playing through a
long set of epic tracks
accompanied by mysterious images of flames and
ghostly figures from a
video screen, the band left
the stage with the crowd
begging for one more
song.
After a few minutes the
band returned for an
encore, finishing the night
with two more songs and
leaving every fan saluting
with horn signs high in the
air.
Opening up the show
for Cradle of Filth were
metal acts Nachtmystium,
Turisas, and Daniel Lioneye.
Allender said that the
band plans on touring a lot
more in the coming
months ahead and that
they intend on writing a
new album at the end of
the year.

Spice Girls song.
Applebee’s is a great
starter spot for first-time
karaokers, but a word of
advice: tables fill up very
quickly on Tuesday nights
and there is no actual stage
for karaoke, so unless you’d
like to spend the night craning your neck awkwardly to
catch a glimpse of your
friends rocking out, get to
the restaurant a little bit
early.

Devaney’s on
University Boulevard
and Goldenrod Road.
Advertising/PR major
John Hansen has hosted his
own karaoke at various
locations around Orlando
for about five years now,
but it’s the spot where he
got started that keeps calling him back.

“Compared to the other
places
around
town,
[Devaney’s] is hard to beat,”
Hansen said. “It may seem
like a little dive bar at first,
but in my opinion, it’s the
Cheers of Orlando.”
Devaney’s hosts karaoke
on its stage every Wednesday night, and the atmosphere within the bar is
much more intimate than
Applebee’s.
“It’s a community thing,”
said Erin MacMillan, a junior in elementary education. “I know all of the people here and the way it is
run [allows for] a good
atmosphere — there’s no
booing when someone
sings and everyone is really
supportive.”
MacMillan doesn’t have
any short-term plans to
grab the mic on stage.

“Not tonight,” she said.
“I’ve gone up to sing once
or twice, but I’m kind of
shy.”
Between relatively low
drink prices, no cover and a
harmonious community
vibe, Devaney’s is an ideal
place for a laid back night of
sing-along — if only more
people knew about it.
“We have a pretty good
base right now,” Hansen
said, “but the more the merrier.”

Rising Star at
Universal’s CityWalk
If Orlando karaoke bars
are reality shows, then Rising Star is the American
Idol of them all.
Located in the touristheavy CityWalk, Rising Star
has cemented itself in the
Orlando area as the karaoke

connoisseur’s
nirvana,
compounding on the traditional idea of a singer and a
background track by
throwing in a live professional band, backup singers,
and a concert-lit stage
ready for anyone willing to
take a turn in the spotlight.
The venue is a bit pricier
for UCF students than
other options. Cover is $7,
but there is no additional
charge to sing. Sundays and
Mondays employ only the
backup singers and emcee,
but the Center Stage Band
is present the rest of the
week.
Rising Star has its fair
share of deals for Universal
employees and their
friends. Team members can
bring a guest along for free
on Sundays through Thursdays.

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New bills ignore
Roe v. Wade
T

here are some issues
where it’s nearly
impossible to make
everyone happy. Abortion is
one of them.
Republican lawmakers in
Florida have proposed 18
bills that would restrict abortion in one way or another,
with the possibility of making it impossible for state
money to fund abortion.
Normally, cases of rape
and incest are taken into
account separately but for
this measure, the only
exemption would be if the
mother’s life is at risk.
This measure — along
with another that would prevent private health insurances set up by the Affordable Care Act to cover the
expenses of an abortion
unless the circumstances
include rape, incest or risk to
the mother’s life — were
approved by the Florida Senate Health Policy Committee
on March 14.
The 18 total proposed
measures have us questioning what happened to the
reproductive rights given to
women by Roe v. Wade.
According to
costhelper.com, the cost of
an abortion at 10 weeks for
someone who doesn’t have
health insurance is between

$320 and $500, and the price
continues to go up as the
pregnancy progresses.
The entire reason for
health insurance is to cover
unexpected medical dilemmas, and abortion falls under
that category. For the government to tell an insurance
provider not to cover the
cost of a legal procedure simply because some object to
the morality behind it doesn’t coincide with the beliefs
our nation was founded on.
If this Senate bill is
passed, it will make it so that
when the ACA goes into
effect in 2014, individuals will
have to purchase separate
insurance to cover abortions,
but many companies don’t
offer such coverage.
As Sen. Mike Bennett, RBradenton, said, “I have a
problem as a Republican
telling companies what they
can and can’t offer and
telling consumers what they
can and can’t buy.”
Our biggest problem with
these two measures is how
stringent they are. The only
way public funds would be
used for an abortion is if the
doctor states in writing that
the mother will die without
the procedure. No exemptions will be given for rape,
incest, or even if the preg-

nancy is affecting the mother’s health.
Rape and incest are
already underreported
crimes and the amendment’s
passing will only exacerbate
the problem. In fact, many
Republicans said they won’t
vote for the bill unless those
two clauses are added.
Aside from this, if public
funds are cut that also means
Planned Parenthood would
experience a heavy blow.
What people fail to take
into consideration is that
Planned Parenthood provides more than just abortion, it’s an excellent
resource for contraceptives,
STD testing, OB/GYN services and cancer screening
and prevention. Although
not all women will need an
abortion at some point in
their life, the others are
absolutely necessary for anyone who is or has been sexually active.
This blatant attack on
women’s reproductive rights
needs to stop. No one likes
the idea of killing fetuses, but
the measure puts even more
stress on our already-overcrowded foster agency and
undermines the fact that
abortion is a necessary measure to ensure life in some
instances.

Better bang for
student-aid bucks
The following editorial
appeared in the Miami Herald
on Friday, March 11:

T

hroughout the country,
for-profit, post-secondary schools represent a
fast-growing sector of higher
education. These institutions
enroll more than 260,000 students across the state. They
serve an important purpose,
especially during an economic downturn when unemployment is high, by preparing
students to enter the job market with new skills that connect with the local economy.
With the growth, however,
have come a series of troubling questions. The loan
default rates for federal student aid are significantly higher in Florida than the proportion of students in higher
education. According to the
U.S. Department of Education, for-profit schools around
the country account for 26
percent of federal student aid,
yet their students make up
nearly half of all defaults. The
median federal student loan
debt for students earning
associate degrees at for-profit
institutions for 2007-08 was
$14,000, almost double the
median for students at nonprofit colleges and universities.
These numbers are way
out of balance.
Last year, the department
proposed a series of new rules
aimed at providing better

accountability and ensuring
that students don't wind up
worse off by incurring heavy
debt yet ending up with a
dead-end job, or none all.
The so-called gainful
employment rule would
measure the ratio between
student debt and income after
completion of the program. A
second provision would
measure the rate at which students make timely repayment
of their loans. According to
DOE figures, only 55 percent
of borrowers attending forprofits were able to pay off
more than accrued interest in
one recent school year.
The rules would penalize
schools whose former students cannot pay down the
principal on their federal
loans, as well as those whose
students have a high debt-toearnings ratio. The proposed
figures are well within reach
for schools that are serving
their students properly and
also ensuring that these taxpayer-backed loans are adequately protected.
A fully eligible program,
for example, would require at
least 45 percent of former students _ still less than half _ to
be paying down the principal
on their federal loans, or
ensure reasonable debt-toearnings ratios for graduates.
At present, no such restrictions are in place. Last year,
the General Accountability
Office investigators found a
series of abuses, including the

use of misleading costs, exaggerated earnings prospects
and high-pressure tactics by
recruiters to entice students
to enroll.
Congress should support
these rules. Unfortunately, a
“rider” attached to a spending
bill under debate in the Senate
but already passed in the
House would keep the rules
in limbo. Supporters of delay
say going forward would deny
hundreds of thousands of students access to the skills training and development they
need to secure a job in today's
gloomy economy.
We're all for more access
and sensible rules that take
the economic environment
into account. It is unrealistic
to expect jobs to materialize
immediately when unemployment stands at more than 13
percent. Federal regulators
can't ignore these facts, and
the rules should reflect that
economic reality.
But blocking the rules is
inconsistent with the goal of
helping students. If all that
debt-laden training doesn't
pay off and abusive practices
are allowed to flourish, what's
the point?
Government should assist
young people trying to stay
out of unemployment lines.
Gainful employment rules,
properly designed, would
actually help students lead
productive lives, find good
jobs and support their families. That's the ultimate goal.

www.CentralFloridaFuture.com • Thursday, March 17, 2011

Japan steady, prepared
in face of earthquake
Though the water
I've seen it before. A
receded after Friday’s
massive wave, a child torn
shocking blow, it then covfrom her mother’s side,
ered those same northdestruction, dead bodies,
eastern beaches of Japan
with shelters and
with about 2,000 bodies
makeshift hospitals everyby Monday, bodies of
where.
loved ones who are now,
Sadly, this time I’m not
sadly, no longer classified
watching a movie, but
as “missing.”
CNN’s coverage of the
The Japanese, however,
record-breaking earthLACY PAPADEAS
Guest Columnist
were extremely prepared.
quake and tsunami in
This is reflected in the
Japan; and never in history
has it played out so vividly before our projected death toll of 10,000, which
eyes, with a constant stream of videos is low considering the extent of the
damage.
shot by screaming survivors as the
The Japanese culture is one of
water raced toward them last Friday.
order and civility, and while it may
And if an earthquake and 35-foot
tsunami weren’t enough for a country, seem to be a stereotype, this soughtafter typecasting has been reinforced
exploding nuclear power plants and
in the wake of this disaster.
radiation have been thrown into the
The issues that occur in other culmix, making it so unrealistic that it’s
tures — including our own — such as
hard to believe. The world sits and
panic, looting and even blaming are
watches while the fourth nuclear
simply not taking place in Japan.
reactor burns; the horror now seems
Regardless of this calm disposito unfold in slow motion.
Japan’s Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, tion, it is impossible for their econosays this is the most difficult crisis for my to remain as composed. When
markets opened on Monday the Bank
the country since World War II.
On Sunday a 60-year-old man was of Japan poured $183 billion into the
economy in order to avoid a total
found sitting on the roof of his house
breakdown.
nine miles out in the Pacific Ocean.
Unfortunately, even with this aid
Thousands, including his wife, were
the uncertainty from the newest
not so lucky and still remain to be
explosion on Tuesday at the nuclear
found.
This is no surprise when consider- power plant and the horrific
ing the force behind an 8.9 magnitude announcement that followed — that
quake. It was so powerful that it actu- the radiation level has risen substantially — it’s hard for any institution,
ally moved the main island of Japan
government or otherwise, to soften
an entire 8 feet and shifted the earth
such a blow.
on its axis by almost 4 inches.
As for immediate relief, President
The earthquake itself, however,
Obama quickly promised aid and
was not actually the cause of the
because of our close working relamajority of the damage, according to
UCF structural engineering professor tionship with Japan it was merely a
matter of hours before American gear
Kevin Mackie, who worked as a
research assistant in Tokyo during his and manpower arrived on their shore.
We are not alone in this great
doctoral studies at the University of
effort; more than 100 countries and 14
California, Berkeley.
Mackie said that the ground move- international organizations have
ment near Sendai, the city which was stepped up, not only for the good of
hit the hardest, was equivalent to seis- helping those in need, but in our evershrinking world, as globalization links
mic activity that is common in Caliour societies more than ever before,
fornia, Utah and Nevada because the
in order to succeed individually it is
epicenter of the Japanese earthquake
was 80 to 100 miles off the coast. The necessary to have those we are
involved with succeeding as well.
modern buildings in Sendai are
This interdependence, while it may
equipped for this, and the older ones
seem for many short-sighted Amerihave mostly been retrofitted to hold
cans to counteract the fundamentals
up.
“This time there was less structur- behind our country’s inception, it is to
most of us undeniable progress.
al damage due to the strong shaking
We are allies of Japan and regardalone than the ensuing tsunami and
less of whether it was moved eight
surge,” he said.
feet closer to us or eight feet farther
This tsunami and surge traveled
away, our efforts to help in this time
miles past the shoreline and washed
of need will prove to further unite our
away entire communities, leaving
two countries.
450,000 Japanese citizens homeless.

MAN ON THE STREET
T H E

W O R D

A R O U N D

C A M P U S

‘What are benefits of a
high-speed rail? Was it
wrong to cancel it?’
JALEN FLORES

SHARLENE HENRY

HEATHER HENDERSON

Cinema studies, junior

Psychology, senior

Journalism, freshman

“It would have definitely been
cheaper for people to go from
here to Tampa if they have jobs
out there and vice versa./ Sort
of,because they had already
spent so much money.”

“I think it would have made for
less cars on the highway and
people would save one gas./
Yes,because I think a lot of
people were looking forward
to having that transportation.”

VICKI MCCULLOH

NELSON VANEGAS

ADAM WAREN

Fine arts, junior

Business management, junior

Physics, junior

“Less pollution in the air and a
major transportation system
that could help people get to
work or other things happening in Tampa. / Not necessarily.”

“The benefits would have been
obvious:Gas and time for the
travelers. Not to mention traffic safety./ I'm not sure. I don't
really know if he had a good
reason to canceled it.”

"I think it would have been a
boost to the tourist industry. It
would have also created a lot
of jobs in the engineering
field.“

“Obviously,people would get
places faster./ No. This is a
country that needs to move
fast,but at the same time we
have to save somewhere.”

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